[culubalo]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15630870-13762,00.html

No seriously either that machine was just junk or the guy was on drugs...

THE efficiency of a high-tech drug-testing machine unveiled in Britain was amply proven when the government minister showing it off tested positive for cannabis.
Edwina Hart, social justice minister in the semi-autonomous regional government of Wales, was found to have been in contact with the drug after having a hand swab analysed by the Ion Track narcotics machine.

William Graham, a member of the Welsh Assembly, who had arranged for police to demonstrate the machine at the Assembly building, also tested positive for cannabis.

However, the politicians were keen to stress that such was the power of the device, positive results could easily come from so-called "cross contamination", for example by touching cash or a door handle previously handled by a drugs user.

"You could pick it up from anywhere couldn't you?" Hart said.

"I can't think where I could have got it from," added Graham.

The Ion Track machine can detect minute traces of drugs, or explosives, several days after someone has come into contact with them, even if they have washed their hands.

Police explained later that while a positive test could not be used as evidence in court, it could help police to target people to search or question.

 

[darian]

It's not junk if it works that well. But he could have been on drugs just to make it look powerful. And he can't remember where he could have come in contact with it, probably at the strip club last night.